skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I suspect this is because it drove us into findable range in the "Top Paid Music" chart, but with no analytics it's frustratingly hard to prove.

This is something I hadn't fully considered. One of the biggest expenses in running a wedding-related business is advertising. Unlike other purchases, wedding-related stuff is only purchased once in a lifetime (well, twice or thrice these days in America, but you get the idea).

Thus, brides and grooms rely on the opinions and advice of friends - word-of-mouth promotion is key. But ultimately, heavy advertising is the only way to reliably get information about your product out to the general public. And the App Store is a great form of free advertising (well, not counting the cut Apple takes), especially if you make it into one of the "Top" lists.
I personally swear by https://github.com/scrooloose/vimfiles.git installation. It doesn't go by some fancy name but does its work outstandingly. I have added to its vimrc wherever it deems fit.
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I am looking out for jumping out to a CSS selector in a css file from the HTML file I am editing for quite sometime in one key. Please see if you can guide me on this.
Thanks! Icons are huge on the App Store, an excellent one is a must have.

We've done some experimenting with marketing, but couldn't figure out any strategy that could convert a bride or groom for $3.50 (the amount we net after Apple's cut). We tried and abandoned Google ads, Facebook ads, and advertising on wedding blogs. Virtually all app-marketing services focus on free apps, and most of them are grey hat in some way.

For a general-purpose app (like our upcoming Party Monster, a more general music app) you don't need to be targeted, but for a wedding app you need to target engaged people, which is expensive!
Facebook Faces New Skepticism From Wall Street Analysts
Just test it, create three different apps and see which one makes the most money (you could skin them differently or perhaps you might just need to have a different icon).. of course there are other issues such as a reduction in virality (if you depend on it) however you will be in a much better position to estimate once you actually know how much people are willing to pay.
It was just something I needed at the time - I was doing a lot with REST services at the time and thought a simple tool for interacting with them would be handy.
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By posting links to Google. I currently make about $7000 a month doing it. If you are interested send me a message. And if you are interested in learning more check out my site for the details: http://bit.ly/bxhogZ
Does this apply to women as well?
Thanks a lot! We have two projects in the lab:

- Party Monster, a general casual DJ app with crossfade, queueing, etc.

- Event DJ, a more generalized and pro version of WeddingDJ that could be marketed to conferences, small theatres, etc.
I am glad this (and similar) questions gets asked. As a community of makers, we can get very good at making things but just making things is not enough. We need to prove to our customers that we created something of value and then charge them for that value.

This topic cannot be talked about enough.
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How have they been "fucked over"? They've bet on equity and it did not turn out the way they hoped.

That the CEO cashed out before has nothing to do with that fact.

And with

"Pincus has a track record now of big IPO train wrecks. He founded Support.com and took it public for $14 a share during the first Internet bubble in 2000. The stock zoomed up by 133% in its first day of trading. It changed hands for more than $30 per share before tanking below $5 in 2001."

they might have should known what was comming.
I think the general approach is dimensionality reduction: start measuring, and round down to 0 for the low-correlation pairs of events.

Do you actually have a stream of more than N^2 observations to process? If not, then most of your correlations are in fact 0, and sparse-matrix techniques apply.
> It never chokes on huge files

You've never tried to reach the end of a 200MB log file with a cold cache... :P
for the smaller startups, just find contact emails and reach out to them individually. pretty sure a few will bite, if anything, to see if you're interested in a job at least.
Microsoft Phasing Out Microsoft Points
I guess the question is whether libraries will use OCR to try to produce text that can be mined, or will they just make images.
That's pretty cool, actually. I would never have thought of selling an app for that, as most everybody I know uses Advanced REST Client ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/advanced-rest-clie... ). It must be really neat to know people are choosing to pay you for your product over using a similar free app.
Given that this bug was likely there for at least 12 weeks in Beta and Aurora releases, it sort-of makes you question if the release schedule couldn't be even faster by skipping one of these or at least try to encourage much more people (certainly the ones who can pull off the above) to try Betas. Having 18 weeks of lead-time for a release clearly doesn't do much good when nobody tries it beforehand.

There were chemspills for Firefox 13, 14, 15 and now 16. None of those seemed to be caused by the rapid development schedule, they were (IIRC) all issues discovered because the release had much wider exposure compared to beta.

On the other hand, Firefox now does silent updates, so if there hadn't been so much publicity about the Firefox release (or on the update being blocked), it might have been a non-event. In a few hours everyone will be on 16.0.1. I'm not sure if this would have happend to a non-open-source project, if we'd even hear about it.

Maybe we can make it clearer that "Beta" is really Mozillian for "Release Candidate"?
If you're targeting grep as a tool to operate on your data, then HTML isn't the best 'raw' format as grep isn't HTML-aware. It can't ignore markup, or translate encoded values (e.g. &amp; => &).
great app idea. Would you be offended if someone made a bar mitzvah version?
If by long time, you mean 2011 - that's when the IETF RFC was filed:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6352

CardDAV is much like CalDAV and WebDAV - but for vCards - which has been around pretty much forever.

Interesting fact: Apple appears prominently in the RFCs of two of the three protocols as well as the vcard format.

With vCard and CalDAV, open-source productivity software never really did much better than Microsoft Exchange/Outlook, but CardDAV does provide something that Exchange doesn't - an working, standards-based way to sync your contacts across all accounts.
I've been hearing more and more that B2B is the way to go. Sounds like it has worked well for you.
Start-Up Chile program: What are the most successful companies so far?
If your employer matches, you are literally earning 100% on your investment immediately. Few other investments can promise the hope of that, let a lone deliver.

If your employer doesn't match, then it can be a bit of a gamble. But you have the option to buy the market (index funds, etc) instead of a particular stock/fund, so you can bet on the entire economy.

And remember that both cases use pre-tax dollars, costing you less for the same investment amount.
The site encourages people to sign up for the free trial of Bingo Card Creator. Some of them will pay $29.95 to print more than 8 cards. Trial signup rates and conversion to purchase are both low but the volume is enormous.
Bayesian statistics gives you a subjective answer to your question. (conditioned on the prior you choose)

Frequestist statistics gives you an objective answer to a question that has the same words as the one you asked, but arranged differently.
Not 100% passive, but fantasy sports has been a nice side income for me this year. I used to play a lot for almost nothing, but then found daily fantasy games (pick a new team every game day, play against other people) and have made a decent return on my investment.

I play on fanduel.com almost exclusively. If you have any questions or want some help getting started, send me an email (in profile). My referral link if you're so inclined: http://www.fanduel.com/?invitedby=yudarvish&cnl=da
The implication is that time is precious because you have so little of it. If lifespans were ten thousand years, you could afford slacking a bit, just like if you have one billion dollars in your account, you can afford wasting some of it.

That said, I agree with you that it shouldn't matter. But it does.
I was making a few thousand dollars a month from a coupon site. The Panda update completely knocked me out of the rankings for the past 4 months, but I've been slowly climbing back up on my top keywords. It was literally no work whatsoever - I wrote a script to aggregate coupons automagically and outsourced SEO. Turns out the latter wound up killing me. (If you're an SEO master, please reach out to me on Twitter) :)
It can handle files that big no problem. Use the -n switch to supress page numbering.

But with a 200MB file, chances are you will only want to view part of it. Unless you have superhuman reading powers. ;)

Dissect the part you want with some filter (sed, awk, tail, whatever) and feed the result to less.
> IMHO success proves Patrick right.

Actually, A/B tests prove him right. Or occasionally wrong! But that's the point of such testing.

He mentioned he has an A/B test going between video/no-video. I imagine that, if the video version wins, he could consider testing 2 different videos (time and expense permitting).
I saw this yesterday when I was experimenting switching from Linux Mint to Ubuntu on one of my laptops (multi-monitor problem that forums hinted were fixed in latest Ubuntu).

What confused me about that page was this:

"Pay what you think it's worth" is a question based on past experience... you either have no experience and think the value is zero or you already have experience and think it's worth $x.

But then all of the options were very clearly angled towards the future and answering a different question "Where would you like us to invest?".

It baffled me as without downloading and using Ubuntu I couldn't give you an indication of what it is worth to me right now, and I couldn't say which part I felt needed investment in the future. Even if I were a regular user of Ubuntu and was upgrading from one LTS to another, how would I know which bit now needs investment until after I'd seen what has changed?

I also could not see any indication that were I to have slid a slider one way, that this guarantees that is where my money will go. In the UK, organisations that take donations are bound to only use such funds for the purpose in which they've been taken, less reasonable administration costs.

Canonical being based in the UK, does that mean that they are creating different accounts per-slider and ring-fencing the funds solely for that use? I doubted it.

I did the only thing I felt was rational and downloaded without a contribution.

To me a more logical thing would be to ask for a contribution after I knew there was value there.

In my case that means to let me install it, see whether it solves my multi-monitor problem, and then suggest I contribute.

Or it could mean that in the support forums or interfaces if a solution removes pain, ask me for money right then... I'll happily give it.

At those points I know the value and know where I want to see future investment. But at download time? Nah, I know nothing.

If you're going to ask for something at the moment of download then a simple tip jar would do the trick. The question of "Where should we invest in the future?" should only be asked after someone is using Ubuntu.
Windows and OSX users aren't asked to itemize their 'contributions' into various buckets.
That people are even questioning the value of a person's input based on their sex is a form of subconscious discrimination. The title of this thread - 'Do female executives drive start-up success?' - is a polemic, dichotomous question, inferring a yes/no response. To invert the scenario, it would be intriguing to see the voracity of comments harnessed from an article entitled 'Do male executives drive start-up failure?' - rather absurd, oui?

I leave you with this thought - diversity, in all its forms, is a strength in business and in life.
The danger of “negative” requirements
I hear you on that - but that survey monkey panel is going to cost $3-$8 a response depending on the audience you want to reach (i.e. 50 year old working men tend to be expensive), and the results just aren't that pretty looking like googles. I wouldn't be surprised if Facebook comes out with a similar product - they seem to be in a better position to give users rewards to perform MR activities, and have more data on users for additional cross tabs;' Google only has approximate age, gender, location.
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I think it'd be pretty hard to argue otherwise.
Microsoft is bombarding Google with mistaken URL take down requests
Excellent explanation - thank you for the write-up!

Now if only we could find those muni bonds that pay 8% ;)
Yes. I learn math to supplement my programming.
What would you like to program?
Where are the other 61% of mobile users coming from?? I know facebook has been focusing on making their mobile site available on all platforms, but I didn't think they would realistically have more than half the visits coming from non-smartphone devices. I doubt Blackberry and WP is more than 1 or 2%.

Also, does android come with facebook already installed? I don't think iOS does, which could account for the difference between mobile web and app.
I started a site 13 years ago and it is one of the largest sites in it's niche right now. Very very popular. I do work on it many hours a week (can range from 0 to 100 hours/week) but I don't really have to. I just love working on it, adding new features, etc. I would definitely call the work passive or hobbyist - even though sometimes I'm up till 4 in the morning working on X new feature.

Income is in the early 5 digits per month range (USD). Traffic dropped a bit from August to September so I've been working more on it lately :)
ITA continues to be heavy users of Common Lisp.
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Do Females Among First Hires Have An Effect On The Success Of A Startup?
Singapore!
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i installed TED and itunesU on my iphone, when ever i get free time i watch a TED talk or a lecture in iTuensU
Partly because Costco charges only a 15% markup to the cost they acquired the goods at (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costco#Sales_model), which means that the external drives, purchased before the flood, were able to be sold at prices below the newly raised internal drive prices.
Amazon, Netflix May Compete More Heavily In Future
Neat. I've thought of doing things like this before. Do you mind sharing how many figures you make on this? How do you handle the actual printing? Is that also outsourced?
[http://www.amazon.com/The-Mecca-Factor-Imperatives-Successfu...], it really shifted my thinking.

very practical
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So, by throwing big words around and pretending to be an expert I gained a few karma points, fantastic. Please don't get so worked up about sloppy posts and "attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" :-)

The 0.5 prior thing was an irrelevant use of the principle of indifference. What I really had in mind was a situation with the null hypothesis that having early women on board has no effect on the success rate of a startup whereas H_1 would be that they do have an effect. However, from my description I think what came out was a prior of the kind P(success | women).

Without using any terminology, intuitively the point I was trying to make (ineptly, as you point out) was this: the likelihood that I assign to the statement that "having women early in a startup increases its succeed rate" is very low, I need to see many cases, form startups working on diverse areas for me to update my likelihood value for this. Why? Because I don't think that a subset of population selected with no clear connection to success will affect the success of a startup. Clearly, if the selection has some obvious connection, e.g. coming from a highly educated family, being good in programming, etc. then it will affect success. It's just not clear to me how being a female or black or gay or Indian, etc. has such a connection. I may, of course, be wrong.

And what about the irony of me calling the kettle black: I don't hold my HN posts to the same standard as research reports from a major company.
I understand that. But if you spend 80 hours per week on it, is it still "passive" or do you simply have two jobs?

To me the idea of "passive" income is that you might spend a certain amount upfront but after that initial push it doesn't require a lot of attention, i.e. passive.
Netflix to Trigger the ‘Chanos Rule’?
Why is the content buried under a million collapsed arrows?

Should "grammar nazi" have a capitalized "N", or should the term be avoided in a Style Guide?
Thanks.

The browser-based ones have improved quite a bit recently. I use Advanced REST Client whenever I'm on a Windows machine - it is quite good.

There are a few features that my tool has that make it worth a few bucks for some people, I think, most notably being able to save requests and share them with other members of your team. I've heard from a few folks who have them checked into source control as part of manual testing scripts (there are some interesting opportunities to automate this kind of testing, too, but I haven't had time to focus on it).

And I'm releasing a feature soon that will let you paste in cURL commands and turn them into requests, which is handy when you're working with a webservice that has examples of requests given in the form of cURL commands (which is a lot of them).

Even if you're competing against free apps that match and even exceed what you can offer in some areas (which is frankly going to be more and more common), you can still find little features that might be fairly simple but add a ton of value for a certain subset of people.
About half of them now seem to be images from stories about these results, and are images of Google image search results.

Most of the rest seem there because Romney in fact a few days ago said he was "completely wrong" in the remarks he made on the 47%. That got widespread coverage, and since stories about the candidates generally include a picture of the candidate, it is not surprising that those images come up in image search now when that phrase is searched for.

For similar reasons, if you do an image search for "47%", you'll also get a lot of Romney images.
Is Martin Grenfell scrooloose the author of NERD and syntastic, or just copied them onto github?
I think what's interesting is whether this is a coordinated cabal, or simply a mirror of how much syndicated is our content (I assume some repeating sentence / quote like "Romney Says He was ‘Completely Wrong’"). I think it's the latter.
The point was you made a claim not a question. As snide as my remark might have been, you're insulting the people who did this research by being so matter-of-fact'ly dismissive of their work based upon a very basic observation that they surely must have considered.
A brief history of laser weapons (with pictures)
I don't advocate any philosophical comments or endorse one. People, often in a blog, write stuff from their experience (or experiences of people around him) which might or might not apply to all or even a single individual author but worked well for the author (or around him). It's hard to generalize and hence, shouting that you don't fit into the 'general' or the 'natural' defined by somebody's premise is as baseless as generalizing it in the first place.
Midori, because it uses WebKit, was surely vulnerable to the same SVG vulnerability and has no sandbox.
great. more cat fotos.
"Could someone who didn't see this coming please explain to me...how this company was going to survive"

How were they going to survive? They aren't dead. Not even close.

Pincus has the same kind of control over Zynga that Zuckerberg has over Facebook, and he's got a mountain of cash in the bank. That means nobody can make him do anything and he has a very long time to get his house in order.

All they would have to do to make Wall Street happy now is lay-off a whole bunch of people and start making 20% profit. The stock would go to $10+ instantly. That's the easy way out, not planning for the long run. Not planning for growth.

Zynga is in a great position for real-money gaming, as just one possible avenue for future growth. The US government is taking longer than expected to regulate that industry but they will get around to it.

Zynga has been public for less than a year and they've got many years of runway left even if things don't improve. People need to slow down on thinking and claiming they are done.
A word of caution: unless you have the personal skills to deal with tenants, do not make the mistake of thinking that real estate is passive income. Like any earning occupation, landlording takes attention to detail, the ability not to procrastinate, and people skills. Unlike most occupations, landlording will bring you into contact with some of the worst people the planet has to offer, under what has to be the worst possible set of circumstances. If you want to lose your faith in humanity, I encourage you to take up landlording.

There are easier ways to live rent-free, unless, as I say, you have the personal skills to ride herd on grown children or if you are lucky enough to own your property in an area where normal people rent, and you can find good tenants on a regular basis.
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Hobbyist would be the better category for it.

At a variable range of 0-100 hours a week, your top end is very far removed from the passive income part of the question.

In this case the average number of hours per month may make more sense to discuss.
Some people can go to Vegas once every couple of years and forget about gambling when they fly home, too. Does this make gambling any less "inherently" addictive for those who are susceptible to it? Most people don't get addicted to pain killers, but some do. Addictive substances by their very nature are a game of probabilities dependent upon the person involved, their temperament, and the availability of what they're addicted to. (Some things obviously more addictive to more people than others.)

In 10 years time certain types of video games that leverage addictive elements to hook users will be widely understood to be just as addictive as your average slot machine. They will have comparable awareness groups, treatment programs, etc as those seen for gambling or prescription drug abuse.
A very useful document that I mostly agree with.

One area of difference is in the conditionals. I never use WHEN or UNLESS for value; only for effect. And, I never write NIL as one of the values returned by IF; I always condense the expression to AND or OR. That is, I freely use AND and OR to return non-boolean values; this is a practice some deprecate, and indeed, I'm surprised not to find it explicitly mentioned here.

I do like to write certain kinds of iteration as tail-recursions, but I always use local functions (LABELS) when doing that; there's no implementation I use regularly that doesn't do tail-call optimization on local calls.